Cutting blows - The chronicles of Newbtime

[Newbtime]

So as some know, about this time last year I was just starting a incredibly retarded bulk where I went from about 215-220 lbs to 270-275 lbs in about 7 months. I got strong as **** really fast but was repulsed with my appearence to be honest. So I spent the other 5 months of the year slowly cutting down from 275 to my current lowest of 234, to not have all my bulking in vain. I actually managed to raise my squat a good 40 lbs in this time frame maybe more, and my deadlift only improved as result from my slow weight loss. But the weight loss had finally started to take its toll and I am pulling the plug. I am going to be doing a slow bulk (nothing ridiculous like before) and I expect to float up to about 250-260 on creatine over the next 2-4 months while introducing more hypertrophy work in with the heavier stuff.

This log is to remind me how much I hate cutting and not to let the extra calories go to waste via slacking and being a vagina in general. I have a log on another website but decided to make a fresh one with a fresh goal in mind.

My training is going to be a modified westside routine with the speed days replaced with hypertrophy days and more emphasis on midway/lockout/tri strength on the ME days. I am going to do a modified russian squat routine along with a slightly changed coan deadlift routine.

Today is my first workout after taking a week off and loading up on the good old calories and carbs.

And I would like to make things clear, I don't pretend to have everything figured out, or even close to it. If you want to offer advice I will take it from anyone.

Bench

135x8
155x6
185x5
225x5
275X5
315X3

3 Board -strict/slow controlled (sort of, not pausing or anything)

355x3
385x3
400x3 easy
410x1 totally screwed my form on this and just shut it down, was supposed to be a tripple


3 "thuper fabulous" sets
Barbell curl 100x10
Dumbell preacher curl 35x15 3rd set of this was with 45 or 50 instead of 35 x10
hammer curl 35x10

Dumbell tri rollout
45x10
55x3x10

my brother fawked the rubber handle up on one of my dumbells so i used a different handle with those twist on collars instead, the collar came off on the last rep of the last set missing my skull by about 1"

Tri bar (thing that looks like it is made for hammer curls with a bar instead of dumbell)

95x3x8 my hands were tired from the hammer curls and this was actually hard to hold onto lol

Upright row

135x8
145x2x8

T bar row

3 plates+ 25 x10
4 plates x10
4 plates+25 x10
5 plates x10

The coffe was starting to make me feel really tied and shakey by the end of this workout.. glad it was over when It was. not a PR or anything at all for me, but alot better then my bench workouts have been over the last 2 weeks.

weight 239, up from 234 last week.

[Deadliftking]

Good luck!

[SecondSucks]

Sub'd

[matthewluke60]

Nice log Newbtime!!!

[kodiak5]

Strong pressin' bro. Subbed

[Newbtime]

thanks broz

Squat

135x8
225x6
275x5
315x5
365x5
405x3
445x5x5 harder then I expected it to be lol

Band hamstring curl

1 light and mini x3x12 30 sec between sets

My form was all over the place on squats compared to normal. Probably due to the fact that I took near 2 weeks off of squatting and have dropped more fat from my midsection. I am honestly begining to suspect that flat out weight gain will not make your squat go up, but where that weight gain is. my belt is looser at 240 then it was at 234 and my squat leverage feels that small bit worse... maybe its just in my head though. I probably should of done 5x5 with 425 instead of 445 because I had planned on doing 3x3 with bands no belt after the 5x5 sets but I was done after that. Legs are destroyed. Also scrapped the russian squat routine and will be doing my own ****. Boring weights for now.

[Mike Zero]

Sub'd mate.

[NJPWRLFTR]

Strong Stuff Bro!

[Newbtime]

Thanks guys.

1st week of coan DL

Deadlift

225x8
275x6
315x4
365x3
405x3
455x2
480x2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGmKfu3SMTA

Speed

385x8x3

3 circuits 90 sec between each exercise, 3 min between each circuit.

Sldl off block

405x8

T bar row

250x8

wide grip pullup

BWx8

Chain suspended GM w/ deadlift stance

325x8


I honestly was ready to just stop the whole workout after I did the 480x2 DL, i had THE WORST leg DOMS I have ever had in my freaking LIFE. Leaning over to get to the bar was more painful then the actual lifting. This happens like every time I take a week off. My first workout back gives me repulsivly disgusting amazing DOMS. I usually end up f'ing over my entire training cycle the first week back because I can't recover, But I didn't want to do this same workout again next week and I didn't want to just skip the first week pretty much so i went through with it. The assistance weights are a bit lower then they have been before because of my legs. My form is a little weird on deadlift (looked good on the 480x2 but every other set was all weird) and my speed is down for what ever reason.

workout factoids: the blocks for the conv sldls are prolly a half inch thicker then a 45, The chain suspended Gms were extra low and extra stigg legged, And I hate pullups.

weight @ 243.5 wow strong creatine

[muscle_g]

Strong lifting!!

[Donkeyno9]

Good read(first post in thread),Good luck bulking slower. Dieting sucks glad you survived.subbed

[Newbtime]

thanks brehs

Inc bench

135x8
155x8
185x8
225x5
245x8
255x8
275x6 miss 7 @ lockout

Inc dumbell fly

55x2x12
75x10

2 board

295x8
315x6

3 board

335x5

3 Fabulous sets

BB front raise 100x12
Dumbell side lat 40x12


Note to self, Do boards first to avoid slaughtering of thine ego. I was freaking done after that ****. I forgot that I used to the high rep boards before the inc and flys. I decided to do the INC benching without leg drive for whatever reason.....Didn't weigh myself this morning but was 246.5 after lifting, but I sucked down tons of water so thats not really accurate.

Post workout pic attached. (no homo)

[skinnycalves]

Post workout pic attached. (no homo)

jesus christ (no mr. slave)

[Newbtime]

(no south park)

Squat w/ doubled average bands no belt

135x8
185x5
225x5
275x3
315x3
335x3
350x3
360x1 messed form up and got leaned over just stopped

Band hamstring curl

mini and light x12 x10 x8

Barbell curlx some sets
hammer curlx a little bit of sets
preacher curlx more sets


The banded squats felt good, i think I will stat doing more of them. Don't know how much it is at the top. I did about 6 hours of yard work so im sure today was a bit weaker then normal.

[Mike Zero]

You doubled bands for squatting? How did you set it up?

[Newbtime]

put the bar on the pins, put the bands on the bar, then did a rack squat with the bands and put them into the uprights. my rack lifted up when i tried squatting the bar up without weighing it down and my rack is atleast 125 lbs so i think the tension is about 150... dont have a way of knowing though. how i measure the weight the bands are adding when i bench is i put wooden blocks on my bench and stack them as high as my lockout is and then put a scale under the bar with the bands... but i dont have blocks that go that high for measuring the tension for squats lol.

[HumanHorrorFilm]

I have always been curious as to how you train man, subb'd

[BaFtub]

You are a big mother f.ucker. Definitely subbed.

[Newbtime]

thanks brahs

Floor press

135x8
155x6
185x5
225x5
275x3
300x2
315x3
340x1 miss 2nd
340x1

Dumbell tri rollout

45x10
55x2x10

Tri bar ext

100x3x10

T bar row

5 plates+ 10x3x10 strict

Upright row

155x3x8

I hate floor pressing and suck at it horribly. My floor press is pushing 60 ish lbs weaker then my normal bench. Maybe its because I pause/deload on the bottom of all reps, use zero leg drive etc, coupled with the fact that that is right at my sticking point and I have no momentum to get by it. I still fukking hate floor pressing regaurdless though. Also the first rep of 340 looked really fast and easy, don't know how I missed the 2nd.

weighed 248 post workout, drank a retarded amount of water and **** though.


upright rows suck ass

[Jason2459]

Doing the things you hate makes you stronger.

[Newbtime]

Doing the things you hate makes you stronger.

Or crazy.

[Jason2459]

Or crazy.

I believe it's to late for you.

[Newbtime]

wow ever since I have stopped cutting my metabolism has kicked into overdrive. When I was dieting I was probably eating under 3,000 calories a day, I havn't been counting the calories but I am really struggling to keep myself out of a calorie deficit. I ate 270 grams of fat a day the last few days, between grapeseed sesame seed,and olive oil, peanut butter and walnuts, im not low carbing either, wtf.

It seems like your body always wants to do the exact opposite of what you want to.

[PitzaPapa]

. I ate 270 grams of fat a day the last few days, between grapeseed sesame seed,and olive oil, peanut butter and walnuts, im not low carbing either, wtf.
.

only 270grams? i get that much just in mayonaise

hurry up and deadlift today already you slacker

and i say screw floor presses. boards always treated me better

[Newbtime]

only 270grams? i get that much just in mayonaise

hurry up and deadlift today already you slacker

and i say screw floor presses. boards always treated me better

Youre canadian and don't have a soul, Thus your dietary advice is moot. Floor presses do suck ass though.

2nd week of coan DL

Deadlift

225x8
275x6
315x4
365x3
405x3
455x2
510x2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Np0...e=channel_page

Speed

415x8x3




3 circuits 90 sec between each exercise, 3 min between each circuit.

conv Sldl off block

425x8

BB row

275x8

Dumbell row

150x8

Chain suspended GM w/ deadlift stance

305x8 - ran out of weight, had my 4 25's on the dumbell and it would of taken too long to switch them from the dumbell back to the bar. Last set of Gms was with 365 instead of 305.


My form on the 510, as far as efficiency is concerned, blew ass. The 2nd rep was a squat, I had to fidget my stance out too wide, started with my hips too low, the list goes on. My form wasn't any better on the first 2 or 3 sets of the speed work, but I started getting the groove back on the 5th-8th set. I started dragging the bar up my shins on the speed work and looking up and it really made a difference. I am contemplating doing speed deads after all my squatting, even if with only 385 or 405.

also its time to invest in more weights, having to change the weights from bar to bar while doing the circuits in coan pisses me off, instead of taking 90 seconds between exercises im taking more like 3 because it takes me that long to switch the weights from the bar for bb rows to the chain suspended GMs.

[BaFtub]

Form looked fine to me. Spanked that weight wtf.. Your speed is crazy.

[PitzaPapa]

finally. i needed a good fap to a new dl vid. i wore the 480x2 out.

git some 100lbers so youll look buff for you mom

[skinnycalves]

strong bloody shins

[Mike Zero]

Working up to 640?

Your sumo form is weird, it's like conventional but with arm in between legs.

[Newbtime]

finally. i needed a good fap to a new dl vid. i wore the 480x2 out.

git some 100lbers so youll look buff for you mom

(no homo/incest)

Form looked fine to me. Spanked that weight wtf.. Your speed is crazy.

lulz, probably because I can double about 105 more lbs, on a good day at least, and im not particularly a slow lifter to begin with, but 510 was slow compared to how it normally is cause im a bit out of groove with my form i think

strong bloody shins

shaved the front of my legs to put duct tape on my shins, but it still ddint stay on. just gunna stay with my old soccer socks.

Working up to 640?

Your sumo form is weird, it's like conventional but with arm in between legs.

Yup, that is thy plan.

my sumo stance is 22-24 inches wide, with my feet facing out forward.